[Angus]

Originally Posted by lostalex

I think it's fair. It's reparations for all the damage you did to them. i think also the brits should be paying reparations to all former colonies. They should be giving aid also to the US, and Canada, and Australia for all the damage they did to the natives and for creating the slave trade.

The sheer hypocrisy is staggering from an American whose forebears decimated and brutalised the entire NATIVE Indian population, committed untold atrocities in Vietnam, dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima, and is responsible for so much bloodshed and conflict throughout the world due to their arrogant, often unsolicited, interference in other nations' affairs.

Oh, as regards the slave trade, your grasp of European history is pretty weak - it was actually the Portugese who started the slave trade in the mid 15th century, my dear, not the English, and in fact the whole of Europe quickly followed, as did the Americans since they are not native to the Americas, but originated from EUROPE. Britain abolished slavery in 1833, whereas America didn't follow suit until 1865.